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This chapter explores how the rule of law can support ~emergent legislative proposals in a handful of jurisdictions ~around the world to curtail intensive animal farming. Part ~1 reviews the global emergence of these legislative ~proposals to date and identifies their common features or ~themes, as well as their limited success. Part 2 then ~discusses the pliability of the rule of law to serve as an ~agent of social change in general as well as in the realm of ~intensive farming. It explains how the rule of law can be a ~persuasive discursive legal tool in generating actual legal ~regulation to address social problems such as intensive ~farming and connects the analysis to broader questions ~regarding norm development in international law. Drawing ~on posthuman feminist theory, the chapter contributes to ~the growing field of global animal law that explores animal ~law issues through international law and transnational law ~frameworks, by highlighting the potential of the rule of law ~to challenge the legitimacy of at least some forms or ~portion of animal-based food systems. The chapter seeks to ~add to the developing conversation as to how to supplant ~existing anthropocentric legal norms through innovative ~deployment of new legal arguments in favor of animals.